What do Argentina, Canada, Israel, New Zealand and Switzerland have in common? The European Commission has determined that they, along with Andorra, the Faroe Islands, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Uruguay have met EU data safeguard requirements for cross-border transfers, according to the Commission’s newly released report. The United States didn’t make the cut.
Generative AI is creating a “tectonic shift” in tech go-to-market. AI categories gained 643 new products between Sept. 2022 and Sept. 2023, showing more than twice the growth of the second fastest-growing software market (design). Vendors in almost every category are adding AI use cases.
Good if you said yes above, since Consumer Reports found as many as 7,000 companies, including LiveRamp, Acxiom, Epsilon, Home Depot and Amazon, are monitoring activities of individual Facebook users. This to help Meta understand what you do when you’re not on the their platform – and to enable them to target you with ads. Out of more than 700 participants who volunteered to have their data looked at, on average each had their data sent to Facebook by more than 2,200 companies.
Here’s a new buzzword for your Bingo card: “agentic AI”, which describes systems that act by themselves rather than in response to a prompt. Salesforce was all over the concept last week, announcing its Agentforce collection. According to the company, it replaces the “now-outdated copilots and chatbots” with agents “operating autonomously, retrieving the right data on demand, building action plans for any task, and executing these plans without requiring human intervention.”